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The Apocalypse, properly Apocalypse with Pictures (Latin: Apocalipsis cum figuris; German: Die heimliche Offenbaru[n]g ioh[an]nis), [1] is a 1498 printed book by Albrecht Dürer containing fifteen woodcuts accompanied by text. The book depicts scenes from the Book of Revelation, and rapidly brought Dürer fame across Europe. [2]
The Four Books on Measurement were published at Nuremberg in 1525 and was the first book for adults on mathematics in German, [12] as well as being cited later by Galileo and Kepler. The other, a work on city fortifications, was published in 1527. The Four Books on Human Proportion were published posthumously, shortly after his death in 1528. [4]
Life of the Virgin is a series of nineteen woodcuts plus a frontispiece, published in book form. It was begun by Albrecht Dürer just after 1500 and only completed 1510 - 1511 . [ 1 ] One of the best surviving sets is now in the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München .
Among his many manuscripts Durer, along with his wife Agnes and friend Willibald Pirckheimer (posthumously) published "Four Books on Human Proportion". Many of Durer's handmade drawings were drawn on a grid to help him simplify the proportions of people in motion. [11] Illustrations from the book Four Books on Human Proportion (German: Vier ...
Hall, James, Hall's Dictionary of Subjects and Symbols in Art, 1996 (2nd edn.), John Murray, ISBN 0719541476 Kurth, Dr. Willi. "The complete woodcuts of Albrecht Durer". New York: Arden Book Co, 19
The Ingeborg Psalter, [3] produced in Tournai, and the Bible moralisée are notable examples of early Gothic book illustration. These manuscripts mark a transition of the Romanesque visual tradition to a more classical phase, featuring figures with softly flowing, pleated robes, finely modeled faces, and a new sense of corporeality.
The Spinola Hours is a illuminated manuscript book of hours of about 1510-1520, consisting of 312 folios, over 80 of which are mainly decorated with miniature paintings. It was produced between Bruges and Ghent in Flanders around 1510-1520, and is a key work of the Ghent–Bruges school of illuminators.
Christ among the Doctors is an oil painting by Albrecht Dürer, dating to 1506, now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, Spain.The work belongs to the time of Dürer's sojourn in Italy, and was according to its inscription executed incidentally in five days while he was working on the Feast of the Rosary altarpiece in Venice.